What kinds of American images did Eduardo Paolozzi collect and discuss with the Independent Group?

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Five Andy Warhol paintings of Campbell's soup cans, each labeled with a different soup variety, displayed in a row on a white wall at Museumsquartier in Vienna. — Pop art *Campbell's Soup Cans*, polymer paint on canvas by Andy Warhol, 1962; a selection of five on display in the Museumsquartier, Vienna.

In 1952, the artist Eduardo Paolozzi delivered a famous lecture to the Independent Group regarding his collection of American science-fiction and other pulp imagery.12

These discussions were part of the group's broader commitment to exploring culture across a spectrum ranging from "high" art to popular forms. As the Pop art movement progressed, Paolozzi further integrated these popular-cultural interests into his work, notably developing an iconography of robots.12